Plant-receptacle.



A. E. LUTEY. PLANT RECEPTACLE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.9, 1918,

I Patented Mar. 18,1919.

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ALBERT E. LUTEY, DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

PLANT-RECEPTACLE.

Application filed August 9, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT E. LUTEY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Plant- R-eceptacles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention aims to provide a novel plant receptacle which may be used as a jardiniere for holding a potted plant, as a container for unpotted plants or wire baskets and in either instance the container may be suspended similar to a wire basket or placed on a suitable support, and as an ornamental bowl.

The plant receptacle is characterized by having an inner false'bottom, a drain tube, and an outer false bottom or drip pan. The inner false bottom is apertured so that it may be easily placed in and removed from the receptacle, the aperture also permitting of water or other liquid draining into the bottom of the receptacle. The inner false bottom constitutes a support for a potted plant or wire basket and said false bottom is provided with a novel guardfor the drain tube of the receptacle. The guard will prevent dirt and other foreign matter from clogging the drain tube, and said tube is disposed so as not to interfere with the plants placed in the receptacle and so as to conveniently permit of the drainage from the receptacle being regulated. The outer false bottom or drip pan is detachably con nected to the bottom of the receptacle and said pan is adapted to receive water from the drain tube and cooperate with the bottom of the receptacle in holding a suflicient quantity of water for the proper propagation or refreshing of potted plants or flowers placed in the receptacle, also to prevent water from dripping on floors and carpets.

My invention further aims to provide an ornamental bowl shaped receptacle that may be spun, stamped, beaten or otherwise shaped from brass, copper or a suitable metal, possessing either its natural finish or finished so as not to corrode and so as to present a neat and attractive appearance.

The invention will be hereinafter specifically described and then claimed, and

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented D131. 18, 1919.

Serial No. 249,091.

reference will now be had to the drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of the plant receptacle, showing in dotted lines a flower pot supported therein;

Fig. 2 is aside elevation of a detached drip pan;

Fig. 3 is a horizontal. view taken on the line III-III of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a side elevation'of a plant receptacle used as a container and suspended from a suitable support, and

Fig. 5 is a similar view of the plant receptacle, devoid of the drip pan and used as an ordinary flower pot.

In the drawing, the reference numeral 1 denotes a bowl shaped receptacle having the upper edges thereof flared, rounded or ornamented, and said receptacle has the lower end thereof reduced or contracted and closed to provide a flat bottom wall 3 and an annular vertical wall 4, said flat bottom wall having a central opening 5.

The vertical annular wall l'has a plurality of radially disposed and outwardly extending pins or studs 6 adapted to extend into angular or bayonet shaped slots 7 of a detachable drip pan 8, which when attached to the receptacle 1 has its bottom in spaced relation to the bottom wall 8 so as to form an auxiliary receptacle or container into which water may drain. In attaching the drip pan to the bottom of the receptacle 1, it is only necessary to push said drip pan on to the reduced lower end of the receptacle and partially rotate the same, said drip pan being limited by its open end engaging the walls of said receptacle. The pin and bayonet slot connection between the detachable drip pan and said receptacle constitutes a conventional form of fastening means for detachably holding said drip pan.

Fixed in the opening 5 of the bottom plate 3 is the lower end of a drain tube 9,

said tube extending to a side wall of the receptacle 1 Where it may be soldered or otherwise secured. The drain tube 9 has the upper end thereof open and protected by a guard 10 carried by an inner bottom plate 11 which rests on the inner side walls of the receptacle 1 in spaced relation to the bottom plate 3. The inner bottom plate 11 constitutes a false bottom and has a central opening 12 serving two purposes. First,

the opening 12 provides clearance for a fingerf to facilitate; placing the false bottom in the receptacle or rei'noi ing'the same.

Second, it permits of Water draining into: the receptacle WhQIB'lt accurnulate to afford moisture to a plant and overflow int o the upper end of the drain tube 9 and pass downwardly into the drip pan 8. It is also .poss ible -to place a "sponge under thepla'te 1'1 to assist in maintaining moisture -for a plant.

Tvhe u pper edges2 of the receptacle lniay be apertured, as at 13, so that a suitable "ghanger 1l 1nay=be attached to. the receptacle wh'enfill is; desired to suspend the san e from a suitable supportyasjshown; in Eigrfll, 2' afrom. t foregoin t w l b b e that I have devised a self wateringrja rdimore; r n flnt re ep ac e w i h w l 5 P clude any danger of plant-haying too ,much water, causing athe soil aro-undthe plant root com so r d;and o i m ly destroy the plant, and, also .obriate dryness r anaz l uf o t supplyg i moi u ehav ng: t oti ne t m plate :i ri us diameters it'is po ssible, to support flower Q pots t yarious. :depths Within' the. receptacle .1 1 s falee o t a p i i$1. PQ$ b1 Q;391311? a-"fio eradi ready the ecept cle, sinooianyndir ha should ass, through the ,opening 12-. of g the a are? bot om: wi l beoo lo od between sad Hfi ra d Prof-e ed em od ment; bi

tobe understood that the structural elements are susceptible to; such ariations and. modifications; as ifall within ,the; scope, of. the appomlodlo ms i 1 r a .QWhatlolaim t 51,, A =rec eptaclepf the, character described comprising a container having; the, bottom th r oftpro idodawith m1 p.e l ,1.12 .t sup? porting means said ;contai;ner,.a draintube H; i 7 i 5 having one end thereof mounted the opening-jof said container; and "the opposite end thereof eiitendiiig aboifesaid pot supporting means, drip pan detachably connected .to th e bottom-dream container.

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